Technology and Time

Author: Bernard Stiegler (France)
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: This book is an important work by the renowned French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. The author integrates technology evolution theory represented by anthropologists, ethnologists, and prehistorians such as Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Lucien Lévy-Strauss, as well as the phenomenological theory of existence represented by Heidegger, to re-discuss the role and position of technology and time in human nature. From the inherent qualities of "imperfect existence" and "vicariousness," the author explains the story of the Prometheus and Epimetheus brothers in Greek mythology, thereby establishing a new relationship between technology, time, and human nature.